Pronunciation Key:
"ə" as in above, a as in "bat", ah as in "father", ahr as in "park", air as in "hair", aw as in "crawl", ay as in "stay", b as in "bib", ch as in "cherry", d as in "dirt", e as in "leg", ee as in "heat", eer as in "gear", f as in "fat", g as in "gut", h as in "hoe", i as in "pick", ī (long-i, i with a macron diacritic mark over it) as in "bite", j as in "joy", k as in "kite", l as in "lift", m as in "merry", n as in "note", ng as in "song", o as in "dot", oh as in "bone", oi as in "boil", oo as in "boot", oor as in "cure", or as in "for", ow as in "pow", p as in "perfect", r as in "rat", s as in "snake", sh as in "bush", t as in "tap", th as in "math", th as in "brother", u as in "guppie", ur as in "her", uu as in "nook", v as in "value", w as in "work", y as in "yes", z as in "zebra", zh as in "pleasure".
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Word origin and comments: French "Baphomet", from Old Spanish "Mafomat", from Latin "Machometus", from Arabic, "Muhammed". Although there are seemingly well-reasoned arguments for "baff-uh-MAY", an assumption that French Inquisitors were unfamiliar with the spelling of the name Mohammed is unwarranted. Idres Shah reasons that it is derived from "Abufihamat", pronounced "Bufihimat," a Moorish-Spanish word for "father of wisdom," another word used to describe the Prophet. To a Templar, the similarity of "Abiff" to "Abufihamat"--meaning "Father of Wisdom", may have been irresistible. There is yet another theory that the word is derived from Greek roots, the words "Baphe" and "metis", therefore "Baptism of wisdom".
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